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The
Benefits of Speaking Less
From Material Success Through Yoga Principles by Swami Kriyananda
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The more people
talk, the less energy they have.
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There is a
close connection between the tongue and the brain. The more one
can keep the tongue completely relaxed, the clearer he will find
his mind become. A wagging tongue takes energy away from the
brain and makes deep thinking difficult.
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The expression, "Hold
your tongue," doesn't
quite do it. Relax your tongue! You'll be surprised
how little you want to speak, once you've learned to keep that
little muscle in your body still and relaxed!
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People love
to chatter. A little talk may help them to relieve the tensions
built up by too constant mental focus, but too much chatter is
detrimental to serious thinking.
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Habit may
make it difficult for you to keep a resolution to "talk
less." Like most New Year's resolutions, which often get broken
the very first day, you may need a system to help you to be faithful.
If so, try coaxing your mind to take only one step at a time. In
the case of those "New Year's" resolutions, make a decision
that covers, not the whole year, but just one hour. Keep silence
at work, similarly, for one hour only, in the morning at the start
of the day. Once that hour has become a habit, extend it to two
hours; then to three.
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Mahatma Gandhi
made a practice of setting aside one day a week, when he simply
wouldn't speak. Considering that an entire country depended on
him, it must have been a challenge for him to keep that resolution.
The result was, however, that he accomplished a great deal more
than he could have otherwise. He wrote letters, for instance,
and composed public statements. People respected his silence,
and accommodated themselves to it. It was his firmness in adhering
to resolutions like this that gave him the strength to sway millions
to his will, and, in the end, to force the British to withdraw
from India.
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